Combination suspender-button and belt hook.



A. C. G-AMP.

' COMBINATION SUSPENDER BUTTON AND BELT HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.21. 1912.

1,223,932, Patented Apr. 24,1917;

UNTTEED TATE PATENT FFTQE. i

ARTHUR C. CAMP, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINATION SUSPENDER-BUTTON AND BELT HOOK.

Application filed August 21, 1912.

\ suspenders button and belt hook, and the particular object sought to be attained is to provide a simple, inexpensive and easily attached means adapted to serve the double purpose of retaining the belt in its proper )osition relative to the uooer ed e of the l a trousers, and to serve as a button, or fastener, to which a button hole in the end of the suspenders leg may be easily attached and detached, but securely held against acci dental detachment.

Other objects and aims of the invention, more or less specific than those referred to above, will be in part obvious and in part pointed out in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations, arrangements of parts and applications of principles, constituting the invention; and the scope of protection contemplated will be indicated in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as a part of this specification, and in which I have shown a merely preferred form of. embodiment of the invention:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my combination suspenders button and belt hook, and illustrating the same applied in position at the upper edge of a pair of trousers and showing it as retaining the belt and one of the suspenders legs;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged front elevational View of one of the devices detached; and

Fig. 3 is a side elevational View of the same, clearly illustrating its manner of at.- tachment to the trousers and the relative position assumed by the belt, the trousers and the belt being illustrated in vertical section.

Referring to the numerals in the drawings for describing the device in detail, the numeral 1 indicates broadly the hook portion of the device which is preferably of U- shape, being formed of a severed length of stiff wire, and having its two legs preferably inclined toward each other adjacent their lower ends, as at 2, said incline portions being connected by the bent loop portion of the U, as at 3. The incline relation of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 24, 1917.

Serial No. 71am.

portions 2 serve to facilitate the application thereto of the button hole 10 in the suspenders leg 11, as well as to improve the appearance of the device. Above the portions 2 the material of the legs of the U are bowed outwardly, as at 4-, and these two bowed portions form a substantially circular enlargement of the hook portion of the device, over which the button hole 10 must pass. The material of the legs, as at 5, above the bowed portions 4, are brought into relatively close juxtaposition and substantially parallel relation, and the upper ends are each bent backwardly and downwardly forming a portion 6 spaced from the rear surface of the hook portion 1. These portions 6 preferably extend downwardly along a comparatively short distance, and are formed at their lower ends with attaching eyes 7 by which the device may be secured, by stitching or otherwise to the material of the trousers 14. The portions 6 are preferably flared outwardly so as to dispose the eyes 7 in spaced relation to more firmly secure the device against twisting and turning, and so as to enable the stitches 8, or other attaching means, to engage the material of the trousers at spaced points, and thus distribute the pull of the suspenders.

The portions 5, being in relatively close juxtaposition yet spaced apart, dispose the connecting bent portions 9 in similar relation, and these portions 9 thus form an ideal seat for engaging the button hole in the suspenders leg, the strain being applied to the button hole at two points rather than at a single point, as is the case with an ordinary button. Tendency to tear out the button hole is materially reduced.

In use, after the device has been properly attached to the trousers, and it will be understood that there may be as many of the devices arranged around the edge of the trousers as may be desired, whether they be all in position to be engaged by a suspenders legs or not, the belt, as 13, is arranged about the body of the wearer and adjusted upwardly beneath the portions 1 of the several devices, the upper edge of the belt engaging the bent portions 9 of each device and being thereby held against further upward movement, as clearly illustrated in Figs. 1 and 8. The pressure of the belt against the down turned portions 6 assists the fastening means 8 in retaining the hook portion 1 against swinging outwardly. The use of the device as a belt hook is in no way dependent upon the presence of the suspenders leg nor of the adaptability of the device for engagement by the suspenders leg. A wearer, therefore, may or may not attach his suspenders thereto, as he desires. When it is desired to attach suspenders, the legs 11 are adjusted so that the button holes 10, move upwardly over the relatively inclined portions 2, and over the bowed or circular portions l, and are brought to rest against the bent portions 9, as clearly illustrated in Fig. l. The circular portion l serves to effectually prevent accidental detachment of the button hole from the hook, it, in this respect, being the equivalent of an ordinary button.

It should be noted also that, while the device, or devices, may be employed for retaining the belt, the presence of the belt, or the adaptability of the device as a belt hook, in no wise affects its adaptability for retaining the suspenders leg.

From the above it is apparent that the de- 'ice may be used either as a suspenders button, as a belt hook, or it may serve for both purposes at the same time if desired, and that therefore the necessity for the ordinary suspenders buttons is dispensed with, as well as the necessity for the, oftentimes undesirable, belt straps commonly employed. The device is attractive, cheap to manufacture, and easily secured to the trousers, and when secured, is capable of withstanding a considerable strain by reason of its being attached at two points, and engaging the button holes in the suspenders legs at two points. It may also serve as a convenient means for the attachment of a key or watch chain as 12, and the drawers strap 15, if desired.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense, and that the language used in the following claim is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A device of the type described, including a wire member bent upon itself at a point in its midlength to form a loop, the lower end of said loop being substantially V-shaped,

the resultant legs thereof bulging or curving outwardly and then extending toward each other and spaced apart at their ends, whereby may be received thercbetween a suspender button, said legs terminating in substantially parallel spaced portions, whereby :1 suspender-end may be passed thereover and seated upon said bulged or curved portion, around said parallel spaced portions, said parallel spaced portions being bent at their ends rearwardly and downwardly, the terminals of the downwardly extended portions being formed into eyes, which lie in a plane parallel to that of said looped portions, said eyes being positioned adjacent the upper ends of said bulged or curved portions and I said upwardly and downwardly extending portions of said device being spaced apart. In testimony whereof I my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR C. CAMP. lVitnesses:

L. GERsroRD HAN'oi-rn, NATHALIE THOMPSON.

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